Abstract / Description of output
English prepositions are extremely frequent and extraordinarily polysemous. In some usages they contribute information about spatial, temporal, or causal roles/relations; in other cases they are institutionalized, somewhat arbitrarily,
as case markers licensed by a particular governing verb, verb class, or syntactic construction. To facilitate automatic disambiguation, we propose a general-purpose, broadcoverage taxonomy of preposition functions that we call supersenses: these are coarse and unlexicalized so as to be tractable for efficient
manual annotation, yet capture crucial semantic distinctions. Our resource, including extensive documentation of the supersenses, many example sentences, and mappings to other lexical resources, will be publicly released.
as case markers licensed by a particular governing verb, verb class, or syntactic construction. To facilitate automatic disambiguation, we propose a general-purpose, broadcoverage taxonomy of preposition functions that we call supersenses: these are coarse and unlexicalized so as to be tractable for efficient
manual annotation, yet capture crucial semantic distinctions. Our resource, including extensive documentation of the supersenses, many example sentences, and mappings to other lexical resources, will be publicly released.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop |
| Subtitle of host publication | June 05, 2015, co-located with NAACL in Denver, Colorado, USA |
| Pages | 112-123 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |